Igor Klekh emerges as a writer from the crossroads of Europe—Western Ukraine—influenced by the great Russian literary tradition as well as the languages and dialects of both East-Central Europe and his native country. A Land the Size of Binoculars collects his breakthrough 1993 novella Kallimakh's Wake, five short pieces, and two more recent novellas.

Throughout, Klekh studies landscapes as intimate as the terrain between fathers and sons and as broad as the wild, mysterious Carpathian Mountains. His work has been compared to that of Borges, Eco, and the magical realists, and celebrated for its synthesis of numerous literary traditions, its use of esoteric knowledge, and its breathtaking prose.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Igor Klekh was born in Ukraine and began his career in Lviv (Lvov). He was nominated for the Russian Booker Prize in 1995. He lives in Moscow.

Michael M. Naydan is a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Penn State University.

Slava I. Yastremski is an associate professor of Russian and the director of the Russian program at Buckness University.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Translators' Acknowledgments

From Medieval to Postmodern: The Prose of Igor Klekh
Michael M. Naydan and Slava I. Yastremski

An Introduction to the Oscillating Prose of Igor Klekh
Andrei Bitov

Galician Motifs
Kallimakh's Wake
An Incident with a Classic
The Foreigner
The Way Home
The Église by the Station: A Galician Motif
Introduction to the Galician Context

Carpathian Narratives
A Tiny Farmstead in the Universe
The Death of the Forester

Notes

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Igor Klekh emerges as a writer from the crossroads of Europe—Western Ukraine—influenced by the great Russian literary tradition as well as the languages and dialects of both East-Central Europe and his native country. A Land the Size of Binoculars collects his breakthrough 1993 novella Kallimakh's Wake, five short pieces, and two more recent novellas.

Throughout, Klekh studies landscapes as intimate as the terrain between fathers and sons and as broad as the wild, mysterious Carpathian Mountains. His work has been compared to that of Borges, Eco, and the magical realists, and celebrated for its synthesis of numerous literary traditions, its use of esoteric knowledge, and its breathtaking prose.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Igor Klekh was born in Ukraine and began his career in Lviv (Lvov). He was nominated for the Russian Booker Prize in 1995. He lives in Moscow.

Michael M. Naydan is a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Penn State University.

Slava I. Yastremski is an associate professor of Russian and the director of the Russian program at Buckness University.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Translators' Acknowledgments

From Medieval to Postmodern: The Prose of Igor Klekh
Michael M. Naydan and Slava I. Yastremski

An Introduction to the Oscillating Prose of Igor Klekh
Andrei Bitov

Galician Motifs
Kallimakh's Wake
An Incident with a Classic
The Foreigner
The Way Home
The Église by the Station: A Galician Motif
Introduction to the Galician Context

Carpathian Narratives
A Tiny Farmstead in the Universe
The Death of the Forester

Notes

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